Players that completely checked out after getting paid

[ViD]

What are some examples of players that were never the same after getting a big long term contract ?

Rick DiPietro ?

Is Pettersson trending in that direction right now ?

 

[TheGreenTBer]

Sir Loui Eriksson Turdmonger the 2nd

 

[mm11]

Laf is starting to get into the conversation

 

[featherhawk]

Dipietro for sure....

Wade Redden
Alexander Semin
Loui Eriksson
Devin Setoguchi
Alexi Yashin
Anthony Mantha
Ville Leino

All come time mind...

 

[The Shadow]

Not sure about checking out completely but endless players that had career contract years and never got close to those numbers again

 

[WarriorofTime]

I would say David Clarkson but he was the same player. Just had one season where a bunch of pucks bounced off him into the net.

 

[tiburon12]

Dipietro for sure....

Wade Redden
Alexander Semin
Loui Eriksson
Devin Setoguchi
Alexi Yashin
Anthony Mantha
Ville Leino

All come time mind...

Setoguchi had problems with alcohol abuse, signed a contract, and was traded the very next day to Minnesota. To cope he leaned into his alcohol abuse more. He didn't check out, he had a problem.

 

[Esq]

Ryan Callahan?

 

[Mr Nogatco]

Dipietro for sure....

Wade Redden
Alexander Semin
Loui Eriksson
Devin Setoguchi
Alexi Yashin
Anthony Mantha
Ville Leino

All come time mind...

didn't dipietro have tons of injuries? is that the same as checking out?

 

[WangMustGo]

Dipietro for sure....

Wade Redden
Alexander Semin
Loui Eriksson
Devin Setoguchi
Alexi Yashin
Anthony Mantha
Ville Leino

All come time mind...

You are way off with Dipietro. Injuries completely derailed his career. Has nothing to do with money or a lack of caring.

 

[ScaredStreit]

What are some examples of players that were never the same after getting a big long term contract ?

Rick DiPietro ?

Is Pettersson trending in that direction right now ?

Dipietro's arrogance (when he was younger) and injuries are the knocks on him-it never was him checking out. If anything the criticism was that he (and the team to be fair as it's their call) were too impatient and rushed him coming back-pushing him too hard-before completely healing because Dipietro wanted to compete until the end. Hell he even accepted an AHL contract to try and get back to the NHL despite being guaranteed a $1.5million payday for decades (literally) to come. His work ethic was one of the few things about his career that has never been questioned.

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

Leafs best power forward

Clarkson

 

[koyvoo]

 

[lakeshirts37]

Ryan Callahan?

not at all

 

[MikeyMike01]

didn't dipietro have tons of injuries? is that the same as checking out?

DiPietro's body checked out

His doctors cashed out

 

[RandV]

What are some examples of players that were never the same after getting a big long term contract ?

Rick DiPietro ?

Is Pettersson trending in that direction right now ?

DiPietro was no Luongo but looking to be a pretty good goalie, but got derailed by injuries. And I can't recall the specific timing but Pettersson's issues started about the time he was negotiating the contract, there's obviously more going on their and it's too early to tell.

For that nightmare UFA summer of 2016 Lou Eriksson really takes the cake though. Most of those big UFA signings still had a good season or two then just declined by age. Loui went from 30 goal 60 point winger in Boston straight to Vancouver's 4th line where he played at the same consistent 4th liner level for pretty much the entire 6 years of his contract.

 

[centipede2233]

Carey Price for me. He signed that contract with a year left on the old one, his numbers tanked hardcore likely cause of you know he entered the Player assistance program likely years after when things started…

 

[Satoru Gojo]

Dany Heatley, wasn’t the same player after signing that long term deal with Ottawa

 

[Some Other Flame]

Wade Redden

Redden declined after his mother died

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Honestly, not really. It's more that he's an east-west player being forced to play in a north-south system and is too old to be able to change his entire playing style.

 

[Fledgemyhedge]

Laf is starting to get into the conversation

Buddy hardly checked in

 

[Hotsam Batcho]

didn't dipietro have tons of injuries? is that the same as checking out?

Quite the opposite. Checking into the hospital is more like it.

 

[Shareefruck]

What are some examples of players that were never the same after getting a big long term contract ?

Rick DiPietro ?

Is Pettersson trending in that direction right now ?

Small sample size, but Pettersson started to trend back in the right direction recently, before he got injured again, anyways. He's had 10 points in his last 9 games, and excluding the game where he was injured early, 9 points in his last 6 full games.

 

[JohnnyConcussion]

I can't really think of any players that checked out after getting paid but the two most obvious check outs to me are Alexander Daigle and Dustin Byfuglien. One fell out of love for the game and the other just wanted to fish.

 

[Warh1ppy]

Nobody mentioning Subban?

 

[duckpuck]

Dustin Penner.